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Exploring Drifters and Particle Tracking in Ocean Science

Discover the uses of drifters and particle tracking in various applications such as search and rescue, oil spill response, and scientific research. Follow the path of water flow, measure data at sea, and track drifters and particles in models. Learn about glider rescue technologies and explore animations of particle clouds. Enhance your understanding with resources on drifter programs, global drifters, and innovative ideas for drifters like messages in bottles and rubber duckies. Dive into visualizations and descriptions of Gulf of Maine river plumes and harmful algal blooms research.

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Exploring Drifters and Particle Tracking in Ocean Science

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  1. Drifters and Particle tracking Charles Seaton

  2. Uses of drifters and particle tracking • Search and Rescue: SAROPS • Oil Spills: GNOME (animation) • Science: • Where does the water go? • Way to measure data at sea for extended periods of time. • Planning: Where will the drifter go?

  3. Particle tracking in the model • Glider rescue: http://www.stccmop.org/news/2010/modeling-technology-supports-glider-rescue • Glider rescue animation: http://www.stccmop.org/~pturner/glider-ptrack2.avi • Particle cloud animation: http://www.stccmop.org/~pturner/drogs3.avi • Particle tracking in Southern California: http://ourocean.jpl.nasa.gov/SCB/ • Particle tracking in CMOP model coming soon…

  4. Drifter Programs CMOP drifters in model context: CMOP MATE Drifters (under development): http://core02.stccmop.org/datamart/observation_network/driftermissions ARGO Floats: http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/Global Drifters (in google maps)Global drifters: http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dac/dac_animations.phpSouthern California: http://www.icess.ucsb.edu/drifter/deployments/index.php http://www.stccmop.org/corie/cruise_support?year=2008&month=09&day=01&time=00%3A15&durationunits=days&duration=30&rtype=14&var=salt_surface&velvar=none&cutoff=5&zsize=10&zoomto=zoom&map.x=325&map.y=247&map=image&drifter=on&drifterid=111&backgrounds=None&marky=&markx=&llformat=DDMM&extent=-127.988651002+43.2341+-121.499448998+49.1323&image=%2Fscripts%2Ftmp%2F4c3e0ff1_3eb8_3.PNG&tool=zoomin&mapwidth=550&mapheight=500

  5. Ideas for drifters • Message on an orange: http://www.une.edu/news/2008/orangedrifters08.cfm • Dr. Charles Tilburg http://faculty.une.edu/cas/ctilburg/research/index.htm • Message in a bottle: 10-20% recovery rate! But you only get start and endpoint. • Rubber duckies: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/31/eveningnews/main566138.shtml • MATE project: http://coseenow.net/mate/ • North East Fisheries Science Center: http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/epd/ocean/MainPage/lob/driftdesign.html • Gulf of Maine drifters: http://gisweb.wh.whoi.edu/cgi-bin/ioos/drift/index.html (both visualizations and descriptions of how to make inexpensive drifters)

  6. Gulf of Maine River Plumes and HABs: http://plankt.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/25/9/1131 • Merrimack River Plume research: http://www.smast.umassd.edu/CEFM/mermade.htm

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